Episode 433: The Muscle of Worry

An important discussion about aging as examined and explained through the lens of James Howlett. 

Merlin thinks LLMs have raised the bar for voice assistants in general and Siri in particular. Dan and his kid watch the excellent HBO series, Chernobyl. Merlin’s weird, truncated contexts in Things. 

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